Colombey les Deux Églises
Colombey les Deux Églises | |
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Charles de Gaulle Monument | |
Location of Colombey les Deux Églises | |
| Coordinates: 48°13′27″N 4°53′12″E / 48.2242°N 4.8867°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Haute-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Chaumont |
| Canton | Châteauvillain |
| Intercommunality | CA Chaumont |
Area 1 | 83.84 km2 (32.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | 666 |
| • Density | 7.9/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 52140 /52330 |
| Elevation | 360 m (1,180 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
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Colombey les Deux Églises (French pronunciation: [kɔlɔ̃bɛ le døz‿eɡliz] ⓘ, lit. 'Colombey the Two Churches'; before 2017 Colombey-les-Deux-Églises) is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France. It is best known as the home of Charles de Gaulle.
The commune of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises was created administratively in 1793, and it became part of the district of Chaumont and the canton of Blaise. In 1801, under the name Colombey, it passed to the canton Juzennecourt. In January 1973, it absorbed the communes Argentolles, Biernes, Blaise, Champcourt, Harricourt, Pratz and Lavilleneuve-aux-Fresnes. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Lamothe-en-Blaisy was merged into Colombey-les-Deux-Églises.
Colombey's name means "cemetery", from the Latin colombarium. The "two churches" referenced in the name are the parish church, Notre-Dame-en-son-Assomption, and the pre-revolutionary Cluniac priory of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.